At the summit of Mt Morrison near Denver

This week started off with me heading to a hotel room because of the need to get up very early for our Europe event. With two mornings in a row of 3am wake-ups I needed to go to bed early and get uninterrupted sleep. Our event started at 3:45am Denver time from our office so it was a challenging start to the week.

The event went well and I was happy to be able to sleep in and take Wednesday off. Marcy and I decided to do a hard hike in the foothills, Mt Morrison, with Olive. It was challenging near the summit and we had to carry Olive over a few rocks where there was no foothold for four feet of smooth rock face, but she did great overall.

Out two cute kitties at the park

Jude had all week off school for fall break and Anna’s break started at lunchtime on Wednesday. Jude and Marcy did the Incline on Tuesday (Marcy did it in 38:53 and even beat Jude to the top). Anna decided to do some face painting one day with some cat whiskers. Then one day they tossed an egg up in the air and then headed it – just because.

The result of “heading” an egg

This weekend was pretty quiet. Jude had a day of refereeing on Saturday while Anna went to a friend’s house to work on Halloween outfits. Today, we had an arctic blast of winter with a top temperature of 16 degrees. We had about 3″ of snow with more coming overnight tomorrow. Jude’s school has already been canceled for tomorrow.

Olive playing with her BFF Zoe at the park

Olive, of course, loved the snow. She could spend all day out there playing in it. Of all the dogs she plays with at the park, her current favorite is Zoe, a 9-month-old lab who lives down the block.